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“An Unapologetic Utopian”: Vinita Agrawal in Conversation with Sagar Kumar Sharma
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Ruffled Butterflies by Ayotunde Mamudu
Full text linkRuffled Butterflies by Ayotunde Mamudu, Parresia Publishers Ltd, ISBN: 978-978-55874-7-0, 2019, Pages-146, Paperback
Madam Geeta Rani
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Madam Geeta Rani: A Stirring Tale of Educational Reformation and Hushed Revolutio
The Portrayal of Subjective Anguish, Forfeiture, Veracity, Affection and Conviction in Namita Gokhale’s The Book of Shadows
Full text linkNamita Gokhale is a distinguished short story writer and suffragette novelists in Indian Writing in English. She was born at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in the year 1956. She completed her education in English Literature from Jesus College and Mary College, Delhi. Gokhale surpasses her characters to bridge a gap between Indian writing in English and provincial languages. She has written nineteen books which consists of short stories, fictions and non-fictions. Being a feminist writer, she delineates women’s pain of seclusion, corporal disorder, conceptual heaviness, discomforts, sentiments, moods and perceptions. She reflects the excruciating life for a woman, her painful experiences and her quest for survival.
The foremost purpose of this research paper is to showcase the personal grief and loss, veracity, affection and conviction in Namita Gokhale’s well-known novel The Book of Shadows. She portrays herself as a protagonist, an acid attack survivor, looser of her love and an alienated entity. Rachita, the protagonist of the novel, serves as a replica of Namita Gokhale. Rachita suffers all the oddities and being an emancipated woman, she finds solitude in the Himalayan hills as she spends her childhood there. She searches to fill the void in order to find true comfort
Narrative Strategies and Authorial Intent in Good Omens: A Satirical Response to the Changing World
Full text linkThe paper examines the narrative strategies and authorial intent in Good Omens, a collaborative novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, with a focus on how a text operates as a satirical response to a rapidly changing world. Published in 1990, at the cusp of the new millennium and amid post-Cold War anxieties, the novel engages deeply with themes of apocalypse, prophecy and human folly. Through a rich interweaving of biblical allusions, socio-historical commentary and literary satire, the paper aims to critique Good Omens. The collaborative authorship of Gaiman and Pratchett informs a distinctive narrative voice that merges Pratchett’s satirical sharpness with Gaiman’s mythic and metaphysical imagination. The paper explores how the authors leverage satire not solely for humour but as a deliberate tool for cultural, socio-historical and political analysis, drawing attention to the late-20th-century Western society
Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord: An Advocate of Feminist Defiance
Full text linkThe novel My Feudal Lord explores the story of Tehmina Durrani, raised in one of the most influential families of Lahore. But her marriage to one of Pakistan’s most eminent political figures, soon turned into a nightmarish experience for her. Her violent and over-possessive husband forced her to endure in silence for fourteen long years till she broke silence through her autobiographical work ‘My feudal Lord’. Her story provides extraordinary insight into the deplorable position of Muslim women caught in the vicious circle of Muslim society.
Remembering Partition: Literature Across Testimony, Oral Histories, and Postmemory
Full text linkThe literature of the Partition of India has unfolded in successive phases, which signifies changing historical contexts, literary responses, and cultural perspectives. This paper argues that partition literature evolves through three overlapping phases that are defined less by chronology than by mediations of memory. In this context, phase 1 (c. 1947-mid 1960s) organizes witnesses into testimonial realism; phase 2 (c. 1975-1997) reframes the archive through feminist/subaltern oral histories and reflective realism; and phase 3 (c. 1997-present) relocates memory into postmemory’s transnational circuits and digital/visual forms. Across these phases, who remembers (survivor, inheritor), what counts as evidence (document, testimony, image), and how intimacy to the past is aesthetically produced all shift, rearchitecting and reframing South Asia’s cultural memory of Partition. By way of examining representative texts from multiple languages, including Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, and English, alongside critical scholarship by historians and theorists such as Gyanendra Pandey, Urvashi Butalia, Marianne Hirsch, and Alok Bhalla, the paper emphasizes the interdisciplinary significance of Partition studies. This paper also attempts to situate Partition narratives within broader frameworks of trauma theory, memory studies, and border studies, acknowledging the ongoing contributions of oral histories, digital archives, and visual media. This paper, therefore, takes the position that Partition literature, across its varied phases of expression and remembrance, continues to shape South Asian cultural memory in profound yet contested ways
Some Creepy Subterfuge and Other Poems
Full text linkThe fragmented psyche of modern life is critically analyzed in these five poems of the collection Some Creepy Subterfuge and Other Poems and swings between the close realm of psychological insecurity and the bigger emotional and ontological anxiety. The works outline the intersection of thoughts, desires, and aspirations with disappointment and postponement through the evocative image that touches upon fog, winter moons, high-speed trains, caravans dissolving, and an overall impression of the apocalyptic dread. The themes of illusion, delusion, persistence of unaddressed questions, and indifference are revisited throughout the poems, thus yielding a landscape where the turmoil of the inner world clashes with the chaos of the outer world. However, in this ambivalence, the poems hold to a delicate desire of affection, meaning, and the unadulterated, natural growth of the self
The Songs of William Blake and Sant Kavi Lakshmi Sakhi: A Spiritual, Mystical, and Literary Exploration
Full text linkBoth William Blake and Sant Lakshmi Sakhi belong to two different religions, cultures, and climes, but their views and visions, images, and imaginations have very close conformity in both matter and manner, which make the readers mesmerized in the realms of spiritualism, mysticism, and literature. William Blake was the late 18th century and early 19 th Century mystic and spiritual poet whose classic work " Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience" dealt with spiritualism, mysticism, and romanticism in its rich manifestations with meaning and message not only to the contemporary age but even today in this dry and monotonous age of materialism. Similarly, Sant Kavi Lakshmi Sakhi, the great saint of the Bhojpuri language, was the 19 th Century mystic and spiritual poet whose four classic divine works, namely Amar Sidhi, Amar Kahani, Amar Bilas, and Amar Faras, are milestones in the field of spiritual and mystical poetry often suffused with the colour and craftsmanship of the various tools and devices of great art and literature. Unfortunately, the language Bhojpuri in which Sant Lakshmi Sakhi has poured his thoughts and messages woven into the fabric of art and beauty, is marginalized today in Bihar, and such classic works that need to be restored, preserved, and upgraded for posterity are in utter negligence. Modern Facebook boys and girls have little concern about such classic legacies. The aforementioned four Granthas of Sant Lakshmi Sakhi, which are called "Granth Ramji," are worshipped in the Samadhi Sthal ( Monastery) at Teruwan Math near Sattar Ghat on the bank of pious river Narayani ( Gandaki) in the district of Gopalganj, Bihar, India. "Amar Sidhi," and its translation into the English language is being processed. Today, the young generation must know their heritage and legacy, and it is time to wake up with concerted efforts to make "the local to vocal," which is also part and parcel of the Modern Indian Knowledge System of Education